All together now: "I'd like to teach the world to stop global warming."
Though such likely won't be the lyrics, a group of the world's leading celebrities have joined together to create a new song to draw attention to climate change.
After all, with an Oscar-winning film, a Nobel Peace Prize, and all the focus on Al Gore's now completely debunked schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth," there certainly hasn't been enough attention given to what is indeed becoming one of the biggest scams in history.
Despite all that, folks who regularly fly around the world emitting more carbon dioxide in a year than most people on the planet will all of their lives feel the need to scold those barely making ends meet.
As reported by Agence France-Presse Monday (h/t reader Rod Richardson):
British rock group Duran Duran and heavy metal band Scorpions are among 55 world celebrities who have joined in recording a song to draw attention to the global warming crisis, organisers said on Monday.
The song is part of a mass media campaign on the threats of climate change organised by the Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum, headed by former UN secretary general Kofi Annan.
The song entitled "Beds'r Burning", which was originally recorded by the Australian group Midnight Oil in the 1980s, can be downloaded from the Internet for free and will be presented to the public at a launch in Paris on October 1. [...]
The media campaign featuring the song is aimed at putting pressure on world leaders to reach an agreement on tackling climate change at a UN-sponsored conference in Copenhagen in December.
Some of the other popular artists who add their voices to the anti-global warming song include French 'Piaf' actress Marion Cotillard, Senegalese star Youssou N'dour, Irish singer/composer Bob Geldorf, Chinese singer Khalil Fong, and even a Nobel peace laureate, South African archbishop Desmond Tutu.
All together now: "I'd like to give the world a hoax that's full of greenhouse gas."
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.
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Can you imagine the carbon
September 15, 2009 - 09:15 ET by BKeyserCan you imagine the carbon footprint they'll create in putting this debacle together? They should just run an old Coke commercial...
Here's a crazy idea thanks to the internet!
September 15, 2009 - 09:21 ET by sshuffield70How about have all the singers log into GoToMeeting.com and sing there? Oh wait! No that won't work. How can they pass doobies and lines through the computer? And it's hard having a drink without talking to your friends in person. And everyone wants to show off their egos to everyone else.
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Unless their amps are
September 15, 2009 - 09:29 ET by mattmUnless their amps are powered by nuclear energy they probably have a carbon footprint bigger than Algore's...
Celebrity Causes
September 15, 2009 - 10:25 ET by allanfLet's get down to the nuts and bolts.
Its a celebrity no-brainer.
especially when you're two decades past your fifteen minutes
September 15, 2009 - 11:51 ET by WhoIsJohnGaltof fame and you can't even get the Postman to remember your name anymore.
On a more sympathetic note...gee, it must really suck to have the personality that drives your overwhelming need for attention to such extremes that you need to get up in front of crowds on a regular basis to wail and pretend for a living. And then the rub is that the very profession that you've chosen to feed your need is so vapid that you have only few short years (or maybe even months) to quench your thirst for attention, then you're uncerimoniously cast aside and made the butt of "where are they now?" jokes in the very purgatory that you most fear, the nothingness worse then death; obscurity.
Sucks to be them, huh?
Do ya think the boys will
September 15, 2009 - 16:40 ET by winston smithDo ya think the boys will be hooking up windmills to their guitar amps? Will they run the sound system via solar panels. I can just see it now!......."Ladies and Gentlemen please bear with us once more while we wait for the windmills to charge up our equipment."
MSNBC - The Place For Lunatics
People
November 3, 2009 - 09:30 ET by diaboliqMore people should reunite against global warming especially celebs and people with power that can really make a great differenceinstead of sitting on your expensive Adjustable Bed and spending the huge ammounts of money get up and save our planet
Singing to stop global warming
September 15, 2009 - 09:16 ET by FeynmanFanLet's think this through:
1. CO2 causes global warming
2. Human beings emit CO2 when they exhale
3. Singers exhale a lot when they sing
4. Singing contributes to global warming
Maybe they should just stay home and keep their mouths shut. I'm just sayin...
"Reason and persuasion are the only practical instruments against error. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged" - Thomas Jefferson
Not to mention
September 15, 2009 - 09:27 ET by jdlybrandThey will all arrive in seperate private jets and be whisked away to the recording studio in SUV's to use God knows how many kilowatts of electricity in the recording studio, all of which will leave a carbon footprint the size of Montana. Real geniuses if you ask me!
"What a revoltin' development this is!"
Chester Riley
We'll hear a lot of
September 15, 2009 - 09:21 ET by danboWe'll hear a lot of misinformation in the coming months.
All the lies need to get out to pretend there's a problem
Don't we have Copenhagen coming up in Dec.
Limited Disclosure: I used to belong to the Sierra Club untill they went crazier. Worse of all, I was bribed by Exxon with free New Orleans Saints glasses with fill ups in the 70's.
"The song entitled "Beds'r
September 15, 2009 - 09:22 ET by Insane Chipmunk"The song entitled "Beds'r Burning", which was originally recorded by the Australian group Midnight Oil in the 1980s,"
wait, they were too lazy to even write a new song???
Lazy or talentless?
September 15, 2009 - 09:30 ET by srhoadesLazy or talentless?
Midnight Oil
September 15, 2009 - 11:19 ET by BondPlainBondLink to Rhapsody and the tune.
Lyrics.
When did Duran Duran become a "rock group"?
September 15, 2009 - 09:23 ET by SickofLibsI'll be on pins and needles waiting for the inevitable $28 T-shirts to become available.
Rock group
September 15, 2009 - 09:35 ET by RukusWhat makes me sick is that the Scorpions are part of this. Sigh. : (
Gary
Levi Johnstoned: The One Trick Phoney!
SickofLibs, Don't forget...
September 15, 2009 - 11:12 ET by goldenthroatThere will be a nauseating telethon touting how the sky is on fire, the seas are rising, wildfires are out of control, polar bears are stranded on iceflows - and it's all because of global warming!
Of course, singing about it will definitely solve the problem, won't it?
Head for the hills, you morons! Flee to AlGore's energy guzzling mansion in the mountain, you dunderheads! Pledge now, you idiots, before the world burns up!
"How can you be in two places at once when you're not anywhere at all?" - Firesign Theatre
Irrelevent
September 15, 2009 - 09:28 ET by srhoadesDuran Duran and Scorpion, that's says it all. "Please pay attention to us, since Ryan Succop is doing so well for the Chiefs we've become the real Misters Irrelevant." Speaking of washed up "Misters" I wonder if Mister Mister is in on this too, maybe Men Without Hats and Slade could join in as well.
Let's not forget everyone's fave 80s transvestite/clown/junkie,
September 15, 2009 - 09:34 ET by SickofLibs"Boy George". He's big on this stuff (when he's not in court, jail, or rehab).
You just caused my gorge to rise.
September 15, 2009 - 11:33 ET by srhoadesPlease I'm trying to forget that one. I remember all the girls in my highschool dressing like him back in the day. {cringe}
dressing? try singing!
September 15, 2009 - 12:29 ET by jon_torlinIn my high school, it wasn't just dressing, it was singing like him, even the girls who normally have a higher pitch of a voice, they would lower it to his pitch and sing "Karma Chameleon" all day long.....blah! What a way to make yourselves unattractive, ladies!
-Jon
I feel for ya
September 15, 2009 - 20:37 ET by srhoadesI feel for ya brother, it went with the outfits.
Poor Midnight Oil
September 15, 2009 - 11:19 ET by ironchefofmunchiesJeez, Midnight Oil has ONE good song and now that's going to be reduced to a "We Are the World" wannabe.
Too bad-but I guess they needed the money.
In this same vein I managed
September 15, 2009 - 09:33 ET by SnappyIn this same vein I managed to stomach a few minutes of Mahers show last night. In which Kathy Griffin and guest Richard Clarke 2 others and Bill all sat around just dumbfounded that people were still denying global warming. Furthermore, the statement that stood out to me was that they were flabergasted that science was being debated "when did that start?" they asked (meaning debates in the realm of science). They did mention that skeptisism was actually growing on the subject then the conversation took the expected turn on who it was that was responsible for the skeptisism.
Point being it was interesting to see the abject ignorance on the subject in supposedly intelligent peoples (not Maher or Griffon I have no allusions there) part.
-
September 15, 2009 - 09:45 ET by merkava"British rock group Duran Duran and heavy metal band Scorpions are among 55 world celebrities"
On what planet are they "celebrities?" What year is this, 1983?
That's the top billing for this article is it? That opening paragraph is supposed to entice me? Yes, I often lie awake at night hoping Simon Le Bon will come and save us from ourselves.
Shouldn't this really be called: "We've got a new album out but nobody cares apart from the 50 members of website message board" tour!
LOL-This will be the AGW
September 15, 2009 - 09:59 ET by R D HelmLOL-This will be the AGW version of "Frisbees for Peace."
-Dave
I agree with Rush. It's time for Obama to resign.
makes me madder than a hornet
September 15, 2009 - 10:02 ET by jon_torlinI swear this drives me nuts everytime I hear about CO2, it's roughly 0.03% of the total composition of the earth's air/atmosphere and the biggest greenhouse gas by volume in the air is water vapor!
Zero point zero three percent for those who can't read the numbers and do the math! It's not an exact number due to constant shifts in the air and whatever volcanoes pump out, but it's not three percent, but on average zero point zero three percent, geez!
Argon takes up more of the atmosphere than CO2 does, I don't see anyone bitching about that, do you?
-Jon
Jon.. I know how you feel.
September 15, 2009 - 10:55 ET by celatorJon.. I know how you feel. CO2 levels currently (depending on where one is sitting, temperature, climate conditions etc etc) is about 385 parts per million. Normal, or even slightly below normal, some might say.
Many successful greenhouse operations around the world PUMP CO2 into their growing spaces to a level of 1,000 to 1,200 parts per million. Why? Because (as you know) CO2 enhances growing plants, increases yield, helps make healthier, greener, larger plants. Plants LOVE CO2.
Politicized science is killing us.
No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.
veggies mental?
September 15, 2009 - 12:36 ET by jon_torlinYes, good ol' photosynthesis. Science was a bit of a hobby for me, not a religion like it is for others.
So you have those vegetarians that are trying to prevent global warming or production of CO2, in effect, we'd be killing the things that they love. (wasn't there a study that showed in some cases, not all, some vegetarians had their mental capacity reduced?)
I even seem to remember a satellite scanner that was checking out CO2 levels, some scientists thought they'd see high concentations of it over the US since we're supposed to be the big bad consumer, but imagine their surprise when there were larger concentrations of it over the Amazon Rainforest but also China and India where they have a large population plus really bad pollution. Anyone remember that? It was a few years ago.
-Jon
Celebrities own, by and
September 15, 2009 - 10:02 ET by moderncommentaries83Celebrities own, by and large, twice (or more) what the average American uses. They own more cars, larger houses, can afford to travel...
If they want to "go green", then I suggest they start living on an income reflective of a majority of Americans.
Aut viam inveniam aut faciam
Eco-Hypocrites
September 15, 2009 - 10:27 ET by dboThey own more cars, larger houses...
You mean like autocrat loving, AGW alarmist and part-time economist Thomas Friedman who lives in an 11,000+ square foot mansion on 7 acres in Bethesda, Md?
I'm sure 10 years from now
September 15, 2009 - 10:13 ET by dboI'm sure 10 years from now these 'visionaries' will be singing Beds'r Freezing to call attention to global cooling.
In Search Of... The Coming Ice Age
September 15, 2009 - 10:47 ET by nicksmith112Spock wouldn't lie.
http://www.youtube.c...
I'm a refugee from the Democratic Party.
nick, That's right, great link, back when science was believed.
September 15, 2009 - 13:18 ET by upcountrywaterRecord cold in 21 States Sept 1, 2009
Burrr cold here today...
State controlled health care is Tort Reform.
The usual suspects
September 15, 2009 - 10:27 ET by Airforce_5_OIf they think they can bring that much pressure on the world then they deem themselves high and mighty. I will save that computer space for something useful, like a mind numbing video game!
Liberalism: The haunting feeling that someone, somewhere, can help themselves.
I remember when Laurie
September 15, 2009 - 10:44 ET by nicksmith112I remember when Laurie David and Sheryl Crow were on their "Global Warming" tour of 2006 (?), the last chance before we all burst into flames. Five year until catastrophic consequences, they said in a television interview. The mother of all hurricane seasons was predicted after Katrina.
You have to find some video clips and quotes from those idiots.
I'm a refugee from the Democratic Party.
one square sheet of toilet paper used
September 15, 2009 - 12:37 ET by jon_torlinWas this the TP tour as people called it?
-Jon
Hoax is cooling off ...
September 15, 2009 - 10:56 ET by 10ksnookerAllies abandon U.S. at climate confab
http://washingtontim...
Getting really lonely.
Only the lonely
September 15, 2009 - 12:40 ET by jon_torlinU.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said time is running out to reach an agreement.
"We need cooperation, not competition," he told reporters at the Geneva
climate conference. "It is important to act on what science tells us."
Really? Even when science is telling you fools that it ain't what it appears to me? Or is it that time's running out because not as many people are believing?
Give me a break!
-Jon
Toupees Aflame!!!
September 15, 2009 - 11:01 ET by countrycuzLOL- Reminds me of the "Married With Children" episode where Al helps all the has beens come together for the gingivitis benefit!!!Duran Duran were lousy pretty boy posers. At least the Scorps knew how to rock (Like a Hurricane). Too funny. I hope this doesn't get them back on the road and out of the nightclub $7 at the door circuit!
As if ANY of these people really understand
September 15, 2009 - 11:31 ET by Russian55I imagine the typical "celebrity" in Hollywood either never attended college or majored in "Dramatic Arts" or "music." (Typical does not mean ALL.)
However, I AM educated in mathematical modeling. I can tell you that the models showing global climate change are crap. They have an infinite number of variables with unknown values.
There is no way these are reliable models.
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Those who beat their swords into plowshares will end up plowing for those who kept their swords in the first place!
September 15, 2009 - 11:32 ET by jessieHHere is how to stop global warming. Stop listening to the MSM & the govt.!
I'm inspired. I pledge to
September 15, 2009 - 12:02 ET by nicksmith112I'm inspired. I pledge to give up all limo rides and all private jets.
I also pledge to give up my 4th home, the beach castle. I will return the dunes back to the wildlife.
Would you please join me. Lets all willing to walk the walk.
I'm a refugee from the Democratic Party.
LOL, I love it... Ok I'm with you!
September 15, 2009 - 12:33 ET by pahuberWill the song come with a vomit bag?
A vomit bag?
September 15, 2009 - 16:16 ET by RukusOnly if it's 100% recycled dont'cha know! : )
Gary
Levi Johnstoned: The One Trick Phoney!
Libs like going after the top precentages
September 15, 2009 - 12:45 ET by namronOk I'll play. How much of a carbon footprint to put on a live show:
This is just off the top of my head. Now these morons who make their living repeating this list night after night need to SHUT UP! I won't even go into their private lives.
Cold summer here in Chicago
September 15, 2009 - 14:44 ET by upgradeWhat is with these people ignoring the fact that the temperatures this year have been record lows. It's all for attention and the media has to promote it because they're invested in it. Look at how many GE green energy commercials are out there.
Singing for global warming
September 15, 2009 - 15:45 ET by grumpyoldbProof that "talent" no matter how thin, and brains do not always go together. I hope AlGore is there to measure all the CO2 that they emit during the recording (it's going to be a LOT of hot air), and makes sure they have their carbon offset forms ready...... Idiots.. Morons, and Idiots.....